heroic poem

American  

noun

1. a poem written in an epic style using lines of iambic pentameter.

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Etymology

Origin of heroic poem

First recorded in 1685–95

Example Sentences

I guess the compactness of it pleased people and also the absurdity of the collision — Old English heroic poem meets tiny aspirin tablets.”

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2012

The Unforgiven is designed and executed as a heroic poem, a sort of cow-country Cid.

From Time Magazine Archive

The warriors of the great Latin heroic poem, the Aeneid, far from rejoicing to escape from him, rejoice when they see that they are to fall “on Mars’ field of renown.”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

One day he commences a heroic poem, which terminates the next in a rebus or sonnet.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various

We have, indeed, no such single heroic poem, unless it be our chronicles.

From King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

Related Words

• legend
• narrative
• tale